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29.08.2024 10:51 Pacific leaders on Wednesday endorsed a sweeping regional policing initiative despite a warning from a bloc of Melanesian countries that it should not be used for geostrategic advantage by Australia and New Zealand.

29.08.2024 10:51 Russian opposition politician Ilya Ponomarev says he saw no reason to be suspicious when he received what appeared to be an email from former U.S. ambassador to Russia Michael McFaul, a trusted contact with whom he communicates periodically.

29.08.2024 10:51 Senior UN officials warned the Security Council on Wednesday that the world cannot afford to lose focus on Syria, as the humanitarian and political crisis continues to wreak havoc on the country more than a decade after civil war erupted.

29.08.2024 10:51 Telegram chief Pavel Durov has been indicted on charges of failing to curb extremist and illegal content on the popular messaging app and placed under judicial supervision, the Paris prosecutor's office said on August 28.

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29.08.2024 10:51 At least 10 Palestinians were killed on Wednesday by Israeli shelling and gunfire in the northern West Bank, according to the Ramallah-based Palestinian Health Ministry.

29.08.2024 10:51 Amid escalating tensions in the South China Sea caused by the Philippines' repeated provocations over Chinese islands and reefs, a high-ranking US military officer has announced the US' willingness to hold consultations on escorting Philippine ships in the region, a move Chinese experts said on Wednesday will only fan the flames and encourage Manila to make more infringing provocations.

29.08.2024 10:51 China's top diplomat Wang Yi held a new round of candid, substantive and constructive China-US strategic communication with US National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan in Beijing from Tuesday to Wednesday, during which the two sides discussed a new round of interaction between the two countries' heads of state in the near future.

29.08.2024 10:51 Wang Yi, director of the Office of the Central Commission for Foreign Affairs, held the latest round of China-U.S. strategic communication with U.S. National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan in Beijing from Tuesday to Wednesday, conducting candid, substantive and constructive discussions.

29.08.2024 10:51 Supporting Africa's development is the common responsibility of the international community, and China stands ready to join hands with the international community to promote Africa's prosperity and bring benefits to the African people, a Chinese foreign ministry spokesperson said here Wednesday.

29.08.2024 10:51 The United States recently began planning to significantly expand its presence at the NATO Joint Support and Enabling Command here, a move intended to improve the alliance's ability to rapidly deploy forces.

29.08.2024 10:51 Not long after the upcoming Labor Day weekend Soldiers from the 1st Brigade Combat Team, 101st Airborne Division will open their new doors, cook some chow and relax in the beds of their new barracks rooms at Fort Campbell, Ky.

29.08.2024 10:51 Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Air Force Gen. CQ Brown, Jr., and Army Gen. Laura J. Richardson, commander of U.S. Southern Command, today emphasized the need for allied and partner nations and their militaries to harness artificial intelligence and further develop the space domain to meet complex security challenges of the future.

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29.08.2024 10:51 Latvia scrapped its decades-old military conscription policy in 2006 after joining NATO. However, amid the West's proxy war in Ukraine and the concocted "Russia threat" narrative, there has been a massive ramping up of Europe's defense spending, with Latvia also moving to beef up its military.